In a 6 square meters room we meet 32 football crazed children with their eyes glued to the TV. Half of them cheer Real Madrid, the other half Barcelona. They live, sleep, eat and study in the same room of an orphanage set in the most dangerous district of Al Sadr City, in Baghdad. School and fights between the Americans and Militias, coupled with the threat that they will loose their home, is all just part of what it means to be an orphan in Iraq.
Director: Atia Al-Daradji, Mohamed Al-Daradji
Screenplay: Atia Al-Daradji, Mohamed Al-Daradji
Photography: Omar Manea, Zahera Karim
Edition: Ian Watson
Cast: Saif Al-Dhabi, Mohamed Al-Dhabi, Husham Al-Dhabi
Running Time: 72 m.
Production:
Human Film / Iraq Al-Rafidain
Atia Al-Daradji, Mohamed Al-Daradji, Isabelle Stead
Human Film, ADP House, 35 Hanover Sq,
Leeds LS3 1BQ, West Yorkshire
Tel 44 1132 438 880
Fax 44 5603 425 269
isabelle@humanfilm.co.uk
www.humanfilm.co.uk